{"product_id":"country-women-cope-with-hard-times-paperback","title":"Country Women Cope with Hard Times - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelissa Walker\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, these women grew up on farms, in labor camps, and in remote towns during an era when the region's agricultural system changed dramatically. As daughters and wives, they milked cows, raised livestock, planted and harvested crops, worked in textile mills, sold butter and eggs, preserved food, made cloth, sewed clothes, and practiced remarkable resourcefulness. Their recollections paint a vivid picture of rural life in the first half of the twentieth century for a class of women underrepresented in historical accounts. Through her edited interviews with these women, Melissa Walker provides firsthand descriptions of the influence of modernization on ordinary people struggling through the agricultural depression of the 1920s and 1930s and its aftermath. Their oral histories make plain the challenges such women faced and the self-sacrificing ways they found to confront hardship. While the women detail the difficulties of their existence-the drought years, early freezes, low crop prices, and tenant farming-they also recall the good times and the neighborly assistance of well-developed mutual aid networks, of which women were the primary participants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare glimpses into the hardscrabble lives of rural Southern women and a model for oral history practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare glimpses into the hardscrabble lives of rural Southern women and a model for oral history practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Walker\u003c\/b\u003e is the George Dean Johnson Jr. Professor of History at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she has been the recipient of the O'Herron Award for Faculty Excellence and the Kathryne Amelia Brown Award for Outstanding Teaching. In 2007 she was named the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching\/CASE South Carolina Professor of the year. President of the Agricultural History Society and past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH), Walker is also the author of \u003ci\u003eSouthern Farmers and Their Stories and All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the SAWH Willie Lee Rose Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53402156794163,"sku":"9781570039539","price":58.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/46lGYTnC6Y9781570039539.webp?v=1779871944","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/country-women-cope-with-hard-times-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}